Hope

"My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came of his skin. it was like there had never been any hole in my chest. i was perfect- not healed but as if there never had been a wound in the first place."

"I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows."

"You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you."

"You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope."

"... I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them..."

"How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance. Struggling to find their way back. Doing the best they can with what they've been dealt. Staying in place, doing anything to keep from sinking. To keep from rising. Until something changes. Like a day at school, a friend for lunch, someone standing up for you. And the choice to feel. Standing before you. Realizing what part is yours. What you can and can't do. Who you are. Who you are meant to be. More than the sum of all your broken parts."

"Hang on! God will strength in any act of your pursuit."

"He held out his arms and I ran to embrace him. It wasn’t that I couldn’t feel my sorrows anymore, it was as if they were never there. I felt safe, and loved. There were no words exchanged, we just held each other."

"Hope is firm belief."

"Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted."

"Dawn will come,’ I told him quietly. ‘The night can be very dark; but I’ll stay by you until the sun rises. These shadows cannot touch you while I am here. Soon we’ll see the first hint of grey in the sky, the color of a pigeon’s coat, then the smallest touch of the sun’s finger, and one bird will be bold enough to wake first and sing of tall trees and open skies and freedom. Then all will brighten and color will wash across the earth and it will be a new day. I will stay with you, until then."

"So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful."

"Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them"

"Beyond today tomorrow reigns for yesterday has passed. Earth time is just a fleeting ploy, our spinning planet's ship ahoy; Our pale blue dot on brink of vast."

"The power to heal the scars begins with hope."

"Distress leads to dimness."

"Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice,"

"Hope is the first step to healing"

"Just a few years ago, when I asked a neurologist if the brain and spinal cord could heal and regenerate, he said "no" and in his world, maybe 20 years ago, that was true. Not particularly useful but in that time and space—true. The cool thing about today is a neurologist reading his or her own medical research literature is compelled to answer "yes, under certain circumstances."

"Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice."